Post by nadine on Apr 25, 2004 0:33:01 GMT 11
Courtesy of 25 April Sunday Herald Sun:
WHEN Jeanne Pratt's Production Company started six years ago she wanted to create jobs for Australian artists.
So seeing two of her productions being taken up into full-scale musicals this year is gratifying.
"I used to send artists overseas on scholarships and they would come back and go on the dole,'' Pratt said this week at the launch of the Production Company's new season.
"If we didn't do this, there wouldn't be much work for them.''
The Production Company's South Pacific and Sideshow Alley have been taken up by other companies to be mounted as full-scale productions.
The Production Company presents semi-staged musicals with only nine days' rehearsal and is a not-for-profit organisation.
John Diedrich starred in South Pacific last year and felt so enthusiastic about the show he is producing it with Andrew Lloyd Webber expert Joanne Robinson at Sydney's Theatre Royal in July.
Playbox is presenting Sideshow Alley, which is the first work to come from the Production Company's $30,000 Pratt Prize last November.
WHEN Jeanne Pratt's Production Company started six years ago she wanted to create jobs for Australian artists.
So seeing two of her productions being taken up into full-scale musicals this year is gratifying.
"I used to send artists overseas on scholarships and they would come back and go on the dole,'' Pratt said this week at the launch of the Production Company's new season.
"If we didn't do this, there wouldn't be much work for them.''
The Production Company's South Pacific and Sideshow Alley have been taken up by other companies to be mounted as full-scale productions.
The Production Company presents semi-staged musicals with only nine days' rehearsal and is a not-for-profit organisation.
John Diedrich starred in South Pacific last year and felt so enthusiastic about the show he is producing it with Andrew Lloyd Webber expert Joanne Robinson at Sydney's Theatre Royal in July.
Playbox is presenting Sideshow Alley, which is the first work to come from the Production Company's $30,000 Pratt Prize last November.
